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 <title>About The GBIF Index</title>
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<h1>About The GBIF Index</h1>		

<h3>Indexed data</h3>
<p>GBIF primarily indexes definitions of scientific names and primary organism occurrence data. In addition the ECAT project tries to crossreference many
more biodiversity sites based on raw species name strings. This includes image banks, scientific journals and many websites that contain scientific species names.</p>
		
<h3>Statistics</h3>		
<p>Pretty much all statistics are preprocessed using the Apache Hadoop framework</p>

<h3>Taxonomic & spatial classifications</h3>		
<p>GBIF keeps original classifications, but also creates a merged, synthesised classification, which is the default for all users.</p>
<p>You can use a different taxonomic or spatial classification to visualise your data in at any time and also store this setting for future visits</p>
<p>How we create the synthesysed taxonomy ...</p>


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